A Box Turtle's Morning

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This is the box turtle that hatched in our yard years ago (there's a video of its mother excavating the nest it was born in on my website). We named it Fen, because it liked to hang out in a toad house under lots of fennel. We used to think it was a boy, but now we think it's a girl based on its eye color. I found her on the patio this morning and taped her for a while. She gorged herself on some june bugs that were still on the patio from the night before. (There were several in the kiddie pool we have for one of our dogs, so I scooped them out and put them on the patio, and Fen seemed to be very happy about that). After eating she climbed over the edging into the flower bed, and made her way to the toad bath. Why she sat halfway in the bath and half out for so long I have no idea. She wasn't stuck. I also don't know why she put her whole head under water, but she did this many times. I went inside for a few minutes, and when I came back out Fen was gone. Don't believe the stereotype--turtles are NOT slow. There are more videos like this on my personal website www.WildlifeTheater.com

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• turtle
• reptile
• tortoise
• herp

[Nashhinton]

Awww. He's just a cute little teeny bitty midget.

[zathras9now]

MMmmmmm.. Escargot for breakfast!

[11wormbig]

to answer your inquity, box turtles (especially these kinds) need to dunk themselves in water frequently to hydrate themselves (water seeps into their skin and hudrates their body). In my experience, they dunk their head in to drink and also to clean their eye and nose passages.

[TheTortoises]

It looks like mine which is a three toed box turtle. Cool pets. They always steal my heart at first sight :).

[ezyboy88]

Looks like an eastern. Good looking set up !

[quadkid123]

What type of box turtle is that

[greenbayman4]

My turtles always lays in the water so it can be cooled down and it can get hit by the basking light

[mellis4771]

Cute box turtle. It's sticking it's head all the way in the water to clean itself out. Water in the nose and mouth and out the back end. ;)

[SnipeZ850]

its not a tortoise idiot, its a box turtle (witch is a tortoise look like)

[dimebagg3darrell]

fast tortoise mannnn